SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 2014 SPORTS Soccer results/standings Rooney’s wonder lob English Premier League Scottish Premiership Cardiff 3 (Mutch 9, 88, Campbell 25) Liverpool Aberdeen 2 (Rooney 17, Jack 72) Kilmarnock 1 6 (Suarez 16, 60, 90, Skrtel 41, 54, Sturridge (Boyd 11); Celtic 3 (Johansen 44, Griffiths 61, keeps United on a high 75); Chelsea 6 (Eto’o 5, Schurrle 7, Hazard 17- Stokes 90) St Mirren 0; Inverness CT 1 (McKay pen, Oscar 42, 66, Salah 71) Arsenal 0; Everton 62) Partick 0; Motherwell 2 (McFadden 48, 3 (Baines 20-pen, Lukaku 53, Barkley 58) Sutton 60) Ross County 1 (Songo’o 82); St Swansea 2 (Bony 33, Williams 90); Hull 2 Johnstone 2 (MacLean 18, McGivern 55-og) (Rosenior 32, Long 38) West Brom 0; Hibernian 0. West Ham 0 Manchester City 5 (Toure 26-pen, 54-pen, 65, Fernandinho 84, Demichelis 88) Fulham 0; Scottish Football League Newcastle 1 (Cisse 90) Crystal Palace 0; Championship Norwich 2 (Snodgrass 20, Tettey 32) Alloa 3 Falkirk 0; Dumbarton 0 Dundee 1; Sunderland 0; West Ham 0 Manchester United Morton 3 Hamilton 4; Queen Of The South 2 Man United 2 2 (Rooney 8, 33). Cowdenbeath 1; Raith 2 Livingston 4. Playing today Division One Aston Villa v Stoke, Tottenham v Airdrie 5 Forfar 1; Ayr 2 Arbroath 1; LONDON: Wayne Rooney posted a goal Southampton. Dunfermline 1 East Fife 2; Stranraer 1 Stenhousemuir 1. of the season contender as Manchester English Football League United ended a memorable week by win- Championship Playing today ning 2-0 at West Ham United in the Barnsley 0 Bournemouth 1; Birmingham 1 Brechin v Rangers Premier League yesterday. Reading 2; Blackburn 1 Leicester 1; Blackpool A week ago, manager David Moyes 1 Huddersfield 0; Brighton 0 Ipswich 2; Division Two Charlton 0 Burnley 3; Derby 5 Nottingham had seen his players humiliated 3-0 at Albion 5 Elgin City 2; Annan Athletic 2 home by Liverpool, but United recovered Forest 0; Doncaster 1 Sheffield Wednesday 0; Peterhead 1; Berwick 3 Clyde 0; East Stirling 1 Leeds 2 Millwall 1; Middlesbrough 1 QPR 3; Queen’s Park 4; Stirling 2 Montrose 2. to overturn a 2-0 first-leg deficit against Wigan 2 Watford 1; Yeovil 2 Bolton 2. Olympiakos in mid-week to reach the German League Champions League quarter-finals. Division One Schalke 04 3 (Goretzka 17, Huntelaar 66, Szalai Robin van Persie had been the star Brentford 3 Coventry 1; Colchester 2 Bristol 90+3) Eintracht Braunschweig 1 (Kessel 81); that night with a hat-trick, but he was also City 2; Gillingham 1 Crewe 3; Notts County 4 VfB Stuttgart 1 (Maxim 69) Hamburg 0; Carlisle 1; Oldham 1 Crawley 0; Peterborough injured in that game, allowing Rooney to Hanover 96 0 Dortmund 3 (Hummels 43, regain top billing with a brace at Upton 0 Rotherham 1; Port Vale 3 Tranmere 2; Lewandowski 52, Reus 90+1); Wolfsburg 1 Shrewsbury 2 Bradford 1; Sheffield Utd 0 (Olic 81) FC Augsburg 1 (Werner 43); Mainz 05 Park. Wolves 2; Stevenage 2 Milton Keynes Dons 3; 0 Bayern Munich 2 (Schweinsteiger 82, Goetze And he did so with an opening goal Swindon 1 Preston 0; Walsall 1 Leyton Orient 1. 86). worthy of a Hollywood script by emulat- ing former United hero David Beckham LONDON: West Ham United’s Matt Jarvis (left) is tackled by Manchester United’s Alexander Division Two Playing later by beating the goalkeeper from astonish- Buttner during their English Premier League soccer match at Upton Park. —AP AFC Wimbledon 4 Cheltenham 3; Accrington 1 Moenchengladbach v Hertha Berlin Plymouth 1; Bury 1 Dagenham and Redbridge ing range. It was not quite as far out as 1; Exeter 3 Fleetwood 0; Mansfield 0 Beckham’s famous halfway-line lob United started strongly. Carroll double United’s lead, but fired straight at The home side were visibly deflated Playing today Chesterfield 0; Morecambe 1 Northampton 1; against Wimbledon in 1996, but the for- stopped Fellaini’s header on the line in the Adrian, as did Mata soon afterwards. Mata by the setback and allowed Rooney a Nuremberg v Eintracht Frankfurt, Bayer Portsmouth 0 York 1; Scunthorpe 1 Burton 0; third minute after the Belgian had been was operating in the hole behind Rooney chance to claim his hat-trick before half- Leverkusen v Hoffenheim. mer England captain just so happened to Torquay 0 Newport 1; Wycombe 0 Rochdale 2. be in the stands to watch it go in. picked out in the box by Young and it was and was a constant menace to the West time. Moyes’s starting line-up caused plenty not long before home goalkeeper Adrian Ham back-line. This time, however, his connection English Premier League table after yesterday’s matches (played, won, drawn, lost, goals for, goals of eyebrows to be raised as Alexander was required to stop a shot from Juan West Ham captain Kevin Nolan felt he from the edge of the box was wild and against, points): Buttner, Shinji Kagawa and Ashley Young Mata. should have had a penalty when he went the ball almost went out for a throw-in. all started and Michael Carrick, a former Then came Rooney’s moment of down under Darren Fletcher’s challenge, The second half was not so memorable as Chelsea 31 21 6 4 62 23 69 Scottish Football League tables genius in the eighth minute as he nudged but play continued, allowing United to West Ham won a series of corners, but Liverpool 30 20 5 5 82 38 65 Championship West Ham midfielder, was employed in Man City 28 20 3 5 76 27 63 Dundee 29 17 5 7 43 22 56 central defence. Hammers defender James Tomkins out of score on the counter-attack in the 33rd could not turn them into goals. Arsenal 30 19 5 6 53 34 62 Hamilton 29 16 7 6 49 29 55 Carrick was drafted in to replace the the way just inside the hosts’ half on the minute. Young fired in a cross from the United, for their part, were content to Everton 29 15 9 5 43 30 54 Falkirk 29 13 8 8 43 29 47 suspended Nemanja Vidic, with right before lofting a shot over Adrian right that Mark Noble hoofed away from keep possession whenever possible, but Tottenham 30 16 5 9 37 38 53 Q of South 29 13 6 10 41 32 45 from almost 60 yards. goal, but the ball hit the onrushing the urge to add to their lead was only Dumbarton 28 11 6 11 51 50 39 Marouane Fellaini detailed to help him Man Utd 30 15 6 9 48 34 51 West Ham replied with high balls Rooney on the shin and flew into the net. intermittent. Newcastle 30 14 4 12 38 40 46 Livingston 29 11 6 12 45 45 39 cope with home striker Andy Carroll at Southampton 30 12 9 9 43 37 45 Alloa 29 10 7 12 29 36 37 set-pieces. aimed at Carroll, who headed a free-kick It was Rooney’s 212th United goal, tak- Fellaini burst through late on and Aston Villa 29 9 7 13 32 38 34 Raith 29 9 9 11 39 47 36 Rio Ferdinand, who also began his just wide and found United goalkeeper ing him above Jack Rowley into third went down in the box under a chal- Stoke 30 8 10 12 32 44 34 Cowdenbeath 29 8 5 16 39 60 29 David de Gea with another header after place on the list of the club’s all-time lead- lenge from Antonio Nocerino, the West Morton 28 3 7 18 23 52 16 career at Upton Park, was ruled out by a Hull 30 9 6 15 32 37 33 back injury, while England forward Danny Stewart Downing had got the better of ing scorers, behind only Bobby Charlton Ham substitute, but no penalty was Norwich 31 8 8 15 26 48 32 Rafael da Silva. Kagawa had the chance to (249) and Denis Law (237). awarded. —AFP West Ham 30 8 7 15 32 40 31 Division One Welbeck could only make the bench. Swansea 30 7 8 15 40 46 29 Rangers 29 27 2 0 89 14 83 West Brom 30 5 13 12 33 45 28 Dunfermline 30 17 3 10 62 48 54 Crystal Palace 30 8 4 18 19 39 28 Stranraer 30 13 7 10 49 45 46 Ayr 30 13 6 11 54 53 45 Sunderland 28 6 7 15 26 44 25 Newcastle 1 Toure hat-trick keeps Cardiff 31 6 7 18 26 58 25 Forfar 30 11 6 13 49 50 39 Fulham 31 7 3 21 30 70 24 Stenhousemuir 30 9 11 10 46 54 38 Brechin 29 9 5 15 47 60 32 five-goal City in touch Airdrie 30 8 7 15 37 53 31 English Football League tables East Fife 30 8 4 18 24 57 28 Championship Arbroath 30 7 3 20 42 65 24 Crystal Palace 0 Brazilian midfielder Fernandinho added a fourth Leicester 36 25 6 5 69 34 81 Burnley 37 21 13 3 62 31 76 six minutes from time when Fulham defended Division Two Man City 5 poorly at a City corner, enabling him to shrug aside Derby 37 19 9 9 65 43 66 Peterhead 30 18 7 5 62 33 61 QPR 37 19 9 9 46 32 66 Annan Athletic 29 16 5 8 58 42 53 Cisse’s late show William Kvist before scoring from a wide angle.